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DAILY PRESS BRIEFING 2006 You may request any of these articles to Jorge Mata : press@atlanticpacificalliance.com
Friday
Dec 29, 2006
Environmentalism's
Death Toll for 'Nature' / Coal power boon / Iraq's Court of Appeals sends
Saddam to the gallows / Kwanzaa / Grow America's Ground Forces and Don't Forget
the Reserve Component / Virgil Goode, Keith Ellison / Robert Gates / Hit Iran
Where It Hurts / Rep. Jeb Hensarling / If You're Going to Boycott Israel, Do It
Right / Canada's Prime Minister takes the right line on Syria / Virtually zero
interest in economic history or in economics in general / Progress against AIDS,
and now malaria / The Massachusetts Supreme Court's foray into the marriage
debate / McCain-Feingold in the Dock / President Saparmurat Niyazov's sad
legacy / Ford Motor Co.'s disintegration shouldn't come as a surprise / The
Populist Persuasion: What do John Edwards and Lula have in common? /
Cut-and-Run Is Not in Their Vocabulary: The folks at Spirit of America and the
Business Council for Peace aren't abandoning Iraq or Afghanistan /
Gaz(less)prom: The real threat to Europe / The fabled links between weight and
prostate cancer / Identification of Step in Flu Virus Replication Supports
Development of New Vaccines
Thursday
Dec 28, 2006
Award
to Improve Nutrition of Infants and Young Children in Developing Nations /
Well-Paid CEOs Enrich US / Yuri Levada / “The World’s Weath”? / Iran's oil
output to decline drastically / The confrontation with Ahmadinejad is on / How
the West Could Lose / Jane Elliott and her Blue-Eyed Devil Children / Obama's
Gift to Hillary / Church of England’s Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali /
Natan Sharansky: "Racist"? Muwatin & Norwegian Agency for
Development Cooperation (NORAD), a directorate under Norway’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs / President Ford: History dealt him a weak hand; he played it
well / The Somali Stakes: Zawahiri calls the country al Maida's "southern
garrison" / 'Our Constitution Works': The Ford presidency was a happy
accident for America / Persian . . . or Iranian? / Charity for Charities: There
is nothing free about cash from the government / Not-so-Big Labor eyes the
Democratic Congress / CEOs lost their jobs in '06 by straying too far / The New
Threat to Europe: Energy / Tongue Tied / The Struggle for the Soul of Islam in
Cambridge / Carbon Dioxide Levels Controlled By Degassing and Chemical
Weathering Over Time / A New Paper On The Role Of Agriculture Within The
Climate System
Wednesday
Dec 27, 2006
US
Gov’t Has Provided $841 Million in Tsunami Assistance / The problem of American
roundsmanship / Nifong’s Folly / Letter from Bethlehem: Christmas Day 2006 /
The Dark Fate of Christians Under Palestinian Rule / Christ, Christmas, and
Capitalism – Acton Institute / Arming Abbas / The case for flip-flopping /
Logic gaps and leaps in income disparity / The Payroll Tax Trap: The more we
listen to Republicans, the more worried we get / Saddam Heads to the Gallows:
Justice comes a quarter of a century after the Dujail massacre / Iran
Irresolution: U.N. sanctions worthy of John McEnroe / What's Going On in
Somalia? / The Duke "rape" case unravels / A grave threat to
companies selling proprietary brands online / Total: How the French do
"Big Oil" / NEA fights to force teachers to underwrite its political
agenda / A Broader Assessment Of Climate Change Science Is Needed /
Nanomaterials Produce Heterogeneous Three- Dimensional Electronics
Tuesday
Dec 26, 2006
U.S.
Announces new $150 Million Indoor Residual Spraying Contract for Malaria
Prevention / U.S. Announces $125 Million Award to Improve Health Systems in
Developing Nations / Is the E.U. America’s Friend or Foe? / The False Promise
of "The Alliance of Civilizations" / Democracy Is a Necessary Hedge
Against Crisis in Thailand / The Jihadist Dream to Liberate Spain / Why
Islamist chants of “End the Occupation” don’t automatically refer to Palestine
/ Barzani: For Iraqis, A Promise Is in Peril / Former CIA and National Security
Council staffer Flynt Leverett is on the loose / The Palestinians’ Christmas
Gift: Civil war / The Church of Pacifism / Why Radical Islam - And Why Now? /
Thomas E. Ricks' Fiasco: The American Adventure in Iraq / To lift worker
incomes, cut the corporate tax rate / The bald eagle will finally be liberated
from the endangered species list / The U.S. trails even Germany in reforming
its postal monopoly / Jimmy Carter's Book: An Israeli View . . . / . . . And a
Palestinian One / Mr. Carter has done this nation an enormous service / The
British Army has a dire deficiency of kilts / Why We're 'Not Winning': It's the
consequences of recent policy mistakes, not original sin / Fear is terribly
catching, bird flu isn’t / Mythinformation
Monday
Dec 25, 2006
US
Provides Food Assistance to Madagascar / US Intensifies Efforts for Worldwide
Internet Freedom / Al Qaeda for the Good Guys: The Road to Anti-Qaeda / A
Christmas Carol for our men and women under arms / Wahhabis or
"Salafis"? / Searching for accountability on U.S. intelligence
spending / In Hoc Anno Domini / Attention, Online Shoppers: State politicians
are creating a de facto national sales tax / Christmas Culture Wars / Love
always needs to find its range to survive / A relatively dark conversation with
Frank Gehry / News of a Sleighing / Surf's Up on Capitol Hill: Businessmen are
in for a rough ride / Learning to Lead / Further Comments Demonstrating that
Climate Prediction Is An Initial Value Problem / Seasonal flu is late / Order
for 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine cancelled
Friday
Dec 22, 2006
Iran
“Votes” / The "Sympathetic" Terrorist – Jose Padilla / The KGB's
Useful Idiots / Frank Rich Declares Iraq 'Box Office Poison!' / Showtime's Sleeper
Cell Will Keep You Awake Nights / Pakistan Bans Truth About Muhammad / Osama's
Western Demons / Will America back the president? / Why won't Carter debate his
book? / The tyranny of political correctness / Al Jazeera - a Hamas Mouthpiece
against Fatah? / Berger took papers to a hiding place / Meat-packing raids,
Mitt Romney and other immigration follies / Sandy Berger's document-stashing /
Lerach's Triumph: The tort kingpin versus the facts and law / In Spite of the
Genocide . . . Armenia seeks diplomatic relations with Turkey / Almost any day
of the year a faith is celebrating a festive holy day / Why South Korea is soft
on the North / Religion in the modern age / Che, Cuba and Christmas: Target
becomes a target of the Che Guevara myth / Is the world about to see a
resurgence of Japanese takeovers? / Identity Crisis in Higher Education / Some
Good News for Christmas–Reptile and Butterflies Flourishing / Deliberate Global
Climate Modification - Is This A Good Idea? / Immunization scares / Are OTC
Painkillers Friends or Foes? / Schizophrenic Coverage of Zyprexa / Economic
Impact of Dominant GM Crops Worlwide: A Review / Alex Avery's "The Truth
About Organic Foods"
Thursday
Dec 21, 2006
The
United States, Iraq, and the War on Terror / How to Make PAYGO Discipline the
Federal Budget / Iraq Study Group is Wrong to Link Iraq to Israel / Claims by
Energy Security Advocates Clash with Consumer Safety Concerns / What do China,
Cuba and Saudi Arabia have in common? / Ireland's Terror Cells / The Art of
Changing Course / Iraq Army Recruitment to Hit Mark / Who's Tough on Tehran?
Iranian voters are, but not the U.N. Security Council / Wal-Mart's embrace of
union and Communist Party / A new challenge to SEC disclosure efforts / The
Pump-and-Dump Economy: IPOs go AWOL / The trade deficit and capital inflow
reflect growth, not weakness / Mother Mosque: "We're Americans with dreams
and aspirations" / The French Elvis moves to a friendlier tax climate /
How Asia's Muslims can influence the Middle East / Seoul: Draw closer to the
U.S., not to Pyongyang / Global warming and caribous / Joseph and Nigam's ENSO
evolution and teleconnections in IPCC's twentieth-century climate simulations /
Trends in storminess over the Netherlands, 1962-2002 / WMO Statement On The
Status Of The Global Climate in 2006 / It is time to retire the myth that
insight is a prerequisite for change / Homeopathic products
Wednesday
Dec 20, 2006
US
& Malaria Vaccine / Poland Joins Methane to Markets Partnership / China,
United States Partner To Advance Clean-Energy Technology / Project 21 Member
Speaks Out About Black Fatherhood / The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American
Health Care / The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability / A Recipe
for Failure / Merry Christmas, Infidel / The Return of Citizen Moore / Felipe
Calderon's Big Challenge / An Honest Confession by an American Coward /
Understanding Iran / Fact Sheet: The United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy
Cooperation Act / IRGC to organize research programs according to defense needs
/ Do you imagine if Bolton had a deal like Annan's? / The Economics of the Rise
of Ahmadinejad / Freeing the Drug Market / Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight (OFHEO) & Raines & Fannie and Freddie's corner-cutting and
political manipulation / Gadhafi's Hostages – II / The Top 1% Pay 35% / The
U.S. can talk and play tough with Syria and Iran / The Blog Mob: "Written
by fools to be read by imbeciles" / Officers in Russian intelligence units
are trained to "liquidate" people / The government that governs
least, governs best. Bloomberg begs to differ / If you're a director, bring
your legal shield to the boardroom / Thailand's "solution" to market
forces it doesn't like / Capitalists We Don't Trust: How to explain all the
suspicion around hedge funds? / Intellectual Diversity Unwelcome at American
Universities / Speech Codes Forever / Snowe/Rockefeller Letter and Response /
Relevance of Nonlinear Effects In the Climate System / Greg Holland and Peter
Webster’s new paper on the statistics of Atlantic hurricanes / CO2 and alarmism
/ Land Surface Station Density Change Over Time / Access to Real-Time and
Archived Climate Data / Malaria Vaccine Prompts Victims' Immune System to
Eliminate Parasite From Mosquitoes / "Hormone-free" or "no rbST"
milk
Tuesday
Dec 19, 2006
The
New Great Game: Why the Bush administration has embraced India / A Plan for
Success in Iraq / Baker-Hamilton / Carter's Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid /
Baker-Hamilton Gives the Left a Place to Stand / Will the Iraq Surrender Group
sink the president? / Gerald Horne's The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John
Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten / Health Policy 2007 / Confronting
Holocaust Denial / Sarbanes-Oxley Act: The SEC Takes a First Step toward Reform
/ Kosovo: Eternally Dependent? / Imperialist Iran: Islamist revolutionaries
imitate ambitions of ancient Persia / The Supreme Court Smacks the Ninth /
Outsourcing Ethics / Dingell Gets His Man / China: Airline protectionism over
the Pacific / Trading on Commodities: The haves, the have-nots and world
history / The Indian Supreme Court's misguided zoning crusade / A dollar's
worth of advice for Ban Ki Moon / Green Tax: France's recent foray into
international environmental policy / Funds Hedge. And regulators can't resist
the temptation to get involved / The high cost of offensive speech on American
campuses / The Pursuit of Happyness / FDA puts Acomplia on slow track /
Hormones and breast cancer / The scientific evidence behind health care benefit
and employer wellness programs
Monday
Dec 18, 2006
Eight
More African Countries To Receive U.S. Anti-Malaria Help / Confucian values,
Asian values, emergent China / Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Russia
Would Benefit the U.S. and Russia / Will New Congress Be Santa to Taxpayers and
Grinch to Lobbyists? / The EU Constitution: Will Europe Force a Way Forward? /
Iraq: Last Chance / Getting Serious About Iran: A Military Option / Evaluating
Emergency Supplemental Spending / Expansion, Year Six / E. Coli's Enablers: The
campaign against food irradiation is making us sick / Europe v. America on CO2
/ An Oil Trust for Iraq: Provide incentives for recovery and political
reconciliation / Airline mergers and antitrust / The last hurrah for a whole
era of noisily manufactured opera megastars / Pastor Buck: A reverend helps
North Korean refugees escape out of China / Germany has the chance to enhance
the EU's competitiveness / Spain's economy is booming. But all fiestas must
end, or at least wind down / Liberal Education, Then and Now / Misrepresentation
Of Climate Science To Canadian Policymakers -Part II / “Was the 2003 European
summer heat wave unusual in a global context?” / Top Ten Junk Science Moments
for 2006 / Performance measures being enforced to improve clinical outcomes?
Fridau
Dec 15, 2006
U.S.
Strategy in the Black Sea Region / Giving the National Guard What It Needs for
the Future / Intelligence Panel’s Flaw: Structure / Bolton charging Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad "with inciting genocide" / Black Activists Criticize CNN
Report on Racial Bias / David Horowitz on Jimmy Carter / Female Terrorists Are
Still Terrorists / Surrender By Any Other Name.... / Allende: The Untold Story
/ The Episcopal Church commemorates the innocent dead of the Iraq War -- killed
by Americans / Douglas Fields's American Cold War Culture / Radio Free Iran /
The Brits End the "War on Terror" / Rumsfeld's Reflections / No one
ever built support for his own agenda by advocating the agenda of his
adversaries / Democrats are using the AT&T-BellSouth merger to win one for
Google / Iraqis reject the Baker-Hamilton report / Use the market to help keep
the peace / Body Snatchers, 2006: Going to a university hospital? Caveat
patiens / The F-Word Finally Falls From Favor / Prepare for Hugo Chávez to
become even more menacing / War of the Belgiums: Orson Welles in Brussels /
Human-rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is tried without legal representation /
Tokyo's efforts to crack down on "predatory lending" are misguided /
China's Great Regulatory Wall: Good luck phoning home from abroad / Report examines
the policies of Utah State University / Happy Holidays, Thanks to CO2 / Climate
Effects of Regional Nuclear War / Misrepresentation Of Climate Science To
Canadian Policymakers / Time’s Toy Reporting Scares Parents / Antioxidants fail
again / "What if you could pop a pill and lose weight?" / Pew's New
Biotech Report Misses the Mark
Thursday
Dec 14, 2006
President's
Statement on the Government of Syria / What a Chávez Win Means in Venezuela and
for U.S. Policy / Interior’s Energy Inventory: Abundant Domestic Supplies
Off-Limits / Improving Drug Access and Reducing Corruption / Tehran's Holocaust
Lesson / Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution / How HAMAS Thrives / Tony Blair
Renounces Multiculturalism - Sort Of / James Baker's Terrible Iraq Report / How
Guantanamo Bay soldier risk their lives during regular riots / Satellites and
Spies in China / NY Times: Everybody Loves Energy Regulation / More Jobs, More
Applause / Annan’s Legacy / Why Success in Afghanistan is Slow in Coming / The
Global Poor Are Getting Richer, Faster / What's Really Happening in the
Economy? / Kofi and U.N. 'Ideals': Rwanda, Darfur, Iraq and Oil for Food /
Merit Pay / Pelosi's Intelligence Man, Silvestre Reyes: Let's hope our enemies
close shop after 5 p.m. / On inequality, the politically correct is factually
incorrect / Our education system is like the auto industry of the '70s / U.S.
steel makers must learn to compete in a global market / A movement to divest
from rogue regimes / Kyoto Canard: The push to limit so-called greenhouse gases
/ Rethinking government monopolies Down Under / Blame the Money: France is back
playing one of its favorite pre-election games / A Barack Obama presidential
campaign could have a porcelain brittleness / How Academe Shortchanges
Conservative Thinking / Joseph Wambaugh ends his ten-year silence / WMO Press
Release on Hurricanes and Climate Change / The Break-Up of Antarctica's
Larsen-B Ice Shelf / Temperature Trends of the Upper Layers of the Global Ocean
/ Effect of Anthropogenic Aerosol Pollution on the Arctic's Surface Energy
Balance / Ice-Storm Damage to Forests in a CO 2 -Enriched World /
Epidemiologist John Snow made cities safer / Dirty chicken or foul fears? /
Genetic modification turns plant virus into delivery vehicle for green-friendly
insecticide
Wednesday
Dec 13, 2006
New
Job Report Shows Wage Gains Are on Track / Kofi Annan's Legacy of Failure /
Kristol: My "Public Interest" / Unbearable Shallowness of the Iraq
Study Group / Remembering Jeane Kirkpatrick / Former aides and experts expose
Jimmy Carter's new anti-Israeli fiction / Jasper Becker's Rogue Regime: Kim
Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea / Tbsession with the "School
of the Americas" / Open Letter to the President on Baker Report /
"Acceptable" Holocaust Denial and Mahmoud Abbas? / UN is rotten to
the core / Finkelstein Hits New Low / Darfur: Europe would rather weep than act
/ Capital Punishment: Fewer innocent people will be put to death by the state
than by the murderers bleeding hearts set free / A Big Problem with Pakistan /
What if the Pope called for the return of the Hagia Sophia? / Germany's Rising
Anti-Semitism / The McNulty Memo / Believe it or not, Congress leaves on a high
note / The Worth of the Dollar: The missing link to monetary policies / What
Muslim Women Want: It's not a matter of religion vs. modernity / Putin Puzzle
Revisited / Europe's Court of Justice is a lonely voice upholding the EU's
principles / Taipei's regulations may drive firms into private hands /
"Wheels of Justice" / Danette Gerald & Kati Haycock's Engines of
Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities /
Holocene elephant seal distribution implies warmer-than-present climate in the
Ross Sea / Disquiet on the Hurricane Front / Researchers identify driver for
near-Earth space weather / Additional Evidence of the Complex Role of
Vegetation in Climate Change / AIDS: more money, less impact (UNITAID)
Tuesday
Dec 12, 2006
US
Provides Emergency Flood Assistance to Haiti / US Provides Emergency Typhoon
Assistance to Vietnam and Philippines / Democrats’ New Intelligence Chairman
Needs a Crash Course on al Qaeda. And the Republicans too / America and Japan
Approach a Rising China / Abe Shinzo and Japan’s Change of Course / Let's Pay
Up for Alzheimer's / We Must Not Leave Iraq / Enough Reports: More Action
Needed on U.N. Reform / With a coming election in Iran, war may be closer than
we think / Al Jazeera Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Sheikh: Suicide bombings are
commando attacks & if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy
in Egypt, the schools in Morocco would be better, the public clinics in Jordan
would function better / Don't blame the failure of Middle Eastern democracy on
us / Jeane Kirkpatrick's Truth to Power / The GOP's Global Warming Divide / A
New Era of Refugee Resettlement / Bernanke in Beijing / Shell: Putin's Russia
mauls another energy investor / The Pinochet Paradox / Why was Pinochet more
hated than every other dictator? / Plagiarism and 'Atonement': Ian McEwan and
the latest scandalette / "Think of China as a bunch of high school kids
(albeit with strict parents) with new driver's licenses" / How does the
Iraq Study Group report meet the test of honor? Mainly by failing it / Congress
normalizes trade relations with Vietnam, but there's a catch / How to deal with
China's trade distortions? / Michigan's Campus Censor / Temperature Observing
Sites Which Are Poorly Sited for Global Average Land Surface Temperature Trends
/ Why are we surprised that anorexia begins at five? / Most Everything You Know
About Air Pollution Is Wrong / New Mobile Phones Will Work with Cellular and
Wi-Fi / Nokia’s Wibree, ZigBee, Bluetooth / Researchers Make Web Searches More
Intelligent
Monday
Dec 11, 2006
US
Helping To Build Flu-Fighting Capacity Overseas / Don’t Need A Convoluted
Device To Explain Alexander Litvinenko’s Demise / America Gets Richer: Alan
Reynolds' Income and Wealth / Hezbollah’s War Crimes / The ISG Offers A
Collection Of Twaddle And Truism / The United States: Anticipating and
Conducting War, 1939-1942 / Real Reform at the United Nations / Dynamic
Analysis at Treasury: What Are the Next Steps? / Evidence from Lebanon about
how terrorists use civilians / Foley: The House Ethics Committee's report ends
with a whimper / A Tort Conspiracy Theory: Even Supreme Court liberals are
skeptical about this one / Five Macroeconomic Myths / The Media Is in Need of
Some Mending: The press and public skepticism in America / Chinese Democracy:
Taiwan reminds mainlanders of what is possible / NATO must bring the Balkans
into the Alliance / Nuclear Sense: U.S.-India ties get a big boost / Election
Day in Aceh / The Al-Hakim Report: Iraq's road to partition / Students gain
academic freedom rights at two major universities / A new report exposes the
political tilt of the academy / Censorship at John Hopkins U / Lomonosovfonna:
A Stickier Handle on the “Hockey Stick” / Why Land Use/Land Cover Change Must
Be Part of Global Climate Assessments / Will the FDA give the new COX-2's a
fair hearing? / NYC ban of trans fats by restaurants
Friday
Dec 08, 2006
How
the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations embolden our enemy / Incoming Congress
Prepares to Launch "Operation Surrender" / Gathering Storm in Lebanon
/ Mainstream media ignores the immigration arrests of Boston imams linked to
terror / Canadian Universities Flee From Patriot Act / A Taxpayer Victory
Against Wasteful Agricultural Subsidies / The Bush–Blair White House Summit:
The U.S.–U.K. Relationship Is Still Special / The Charter State Option:
Charting a Course Toward Federalism in Education / The Pequot 'Scandal' /
Spitzer: Another defeat in court means a victory for poor savers / Possibly the
most confounding feature of the Iraq war has been the failure to define what
victory would be / Scottish independence is suddenly on the political radar /
The Iraq Study Group's primary purpose wasn't saving Iraq from catastrophe but
saving the U.S. political system / It is worth worrying about what Chávez will
do to maintain power when the money runs out / Europe's recovery is turning out
to be the real thing / Rudd, newly elected leader of Australia's opposition
Labour Party / Dismantling Brown's Culture of Conformity / The Jewish Case for
"Merry Christmas" / Climate Forcings As Viewed From Space / Is
Caffeine Addictive? A Review of the Literature
Thursday
Dec 07, 2006
How
fresh was the poison polonium? / Errors, omissions, inventions and falsehoods /
The Iraq Study Group Report: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Keeping the
State Children's Health Care Program Focused on Federal Objectives / The Gates
Confirmation Hearing: Congress Must Focus on Defense Essentials / The Urgent
Need to Reform Medicare's Physician Payment System / Preparing for the
U.S.–China Strategic Economic Dialogue / Has the Communist conquest of Latin
America begun? / How to End Terrorism / The Terrorist Waiver Program / Visa
Waiver Program / Gregory Davis's Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the
World / Hampton Sides' Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West / The
Iraq Muddle Group: Bush and Hakim count for more than Baker-Hamilton / Shoot
for the moon. But let private speculators figure out the best way to get it
done / Bill Lerach is ordered to pay his target's legal fees / No Way to Win a
War: "A fatuous process yields, necessarily, fatuous results" /
Trust-busters have again launched an inquiry into collusion in financial
services, this time focusing on KKR / State of the Unions: Should you pay for
someone else's opinions? / Goodbye, GST: Hong Kong listens to its people on
taxes / How China's Bad Loans Fare in Good Times / Why Hong Kong's GST was
bound to fail / China's Illicit Ordinations / Hypocrisy at Columbia / Muslim
Student Association blacklisting of the film Obsession / Sea Level Rise? - Not
From Antarctic Melting / Oceans “Warming or Cooling”? / New Paper On North
Atlantic Ocean Heat Content Changes / Cell phone use not linked to cancer risk
Wednesday
Dec 06, 2006
Ambassador
Bolton’s Record of Effectiveness at the UN / Environmentalist: "every time
someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should
be dragged out of his office and drowned." / Congress Should Extend
Developing Country Trade Preferences / China and India: Thawing Relations
Unlikely to Lead to Strategic Relationship / The Gulf of Mexico Energy Security
Act of 2006: One Small Step for Energy Supply / Five Reasons for the Senate to
Reject Boosting Farm Subsidies / A NATO for Asia / Are Corporations
Democracies? / Eco-Censorship: The Effort to Thwart the Climate Change Debate /
Tehran's Holocaust Denial Conference / CAIR's Pro-HAMAS Press / Will George
Bush Become Sherman or Chamberlain? / No, the Cops Didn’t Murder Sean Bell /
Thatcher economist de-hypes climate debate / James Flynn and Charles Murray /
Justice Breyer's self-delusion / France and the Rwanda genocide / Michael Moore
Issues Iraq Withdrawal Fatwa / AMT: Haven't we learned anything about the
perils of tax policy rooted in political envy? / Take the Schumer Train. Just
what Congress needs: new forms of chicanery to raid the Treasury / The lessons
of Pfizer's $1 billion drug bust / Grievance theater at Minneapolis airport./
Irrational Exuberance, Reconsidered / "The eclipse of the public
corporation" / Cross-border competition in health care could greatly aid
European patients / Europe taxes plane travel and bankrolls plane construction
/ Ségolène Royal lands, awkwardly, in the Middle East / Japan's Education
Reforms / Why do South Pacific Nations Need Armies? Fiji descends into a
Pacific-style banana republic / Misplaced Priorities at University of Wisconsin-Madison
/ Academic Censorship in the Netherlands / Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes's
Early Cold War Spies / Hollywood Economics / Decelerating the Sea Level Rise
Scare / Increased Hurricanes And Increased Winter Snowfall / Please don’t weigh
the children / Pour salt on it / Food Addiction, Redux
Tuesday
Dec 05, 2006
Partnership
for Sustainable Development: SEED / The Poison of Populism and Democracy’s Cure
/ Steps to Repair the "Broken Branch" / SEC's Sarbanes-Oxley Fix
Needs Fixing / We have not yet lost all sense of right and wrong / How the
Iranian President tries to spread his values / Ahmadinejad's latest threat to
the American people / Hezbollah's Assault in Lebanon: Day Two / Two visions of
Lebanon are now in open conflict / Fiasco in the Congo / Max Boot discusses
technology, warfare, and the course of history from 1500 to today / Whether to
heed George Patton or Neville Chamberlain / Jimmy Carter's Disingenuous
Diplomacy / Stephen Hadley makes the rounds / The Iraq Study Group has reached
a consensus / Western aid to the Third World does not alleviate poverty / Bad
policies may imperil pharmaceutical research / However sincere Tehran's
moderates may be, its hardliners have torpedoed deals / Bolton Departs / The
seamy underside of asbestos litigation / "So how did Mr. Kerkorian lose?
Partly, it seems, just by being Kirk Kerkorian." / Lopez Obrador stages a
Mexican intifada, minus the suicide bombers / Bismarck's Baby: There's no such
thing as free health care / China's pension money heads for foreign shores /
Wal-Mart in India: Good news for the country's farmers / China's Emerging
Pensions Giant: China's National Social Security Fund / CAIR KOs "24"
/ Keeping smart about fruits and vegetables
Monday
Dec 04, 2006
US
Advances $1 Billion for Clean Coal Projects / The key to progress is political
change within Iraq / If we open negotiations with Iran, what would we say? /
Two versions of what we should do next / American Association of University
Professors, Cary Nelson / Symposium: The Pope and Islam / Sabotage Times /
Radical Islam thirsts for a second Holocaust / What Hurricane Season? / The
2006 Index of Dependency / Congress Should Not Fix Drug Prices / Europe,
America, and the Continental Drift / The U.S.-European alliance is not on its
last legs / Senators to Exxon: Shut up, and pay up / Chinese Doublespeak: Open
up to the Olympic press, but arrest the locals / The Iraq Alternative: Arrest
the emerging partition, and address Sunni concerns / The U.N. Menu: Stricter
food regulation only hurts science and technology -- and consumers / Excerpts
from a letter to Exxon's CEO, from Sens. Rockefeller and Snowe / Publisher L.
Gordon Crovitz discusses The Wall Street Journal's plans to provide news in
today's always-on, 24/7 information world / Achtung, Killertomaten! Germans are
the world's fastest scaredy cats / India: The world's most populous democracy
has no slowdown in sight / Say no to AP’s shoddy work / Columbia University's
Political Agendas / Harvard Redefines Education / Major Role of Landscape on
Surface Temperatures / Impacts of regional land use and land cover on rainfall
/ WMO Consensus Statement on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change / Sea Level
Rise Reduction: Less than A Quarter Inch by 2100 / Are Foods
"Addictive"? / The UN Menu in the Wall Street Journal Section /
Achtung, Killertomaten in the Wall Street Journal Section
Friday
Dec 01, 2006
Peace
Corps Volunteers Working Globally To Combat HIV/AIDS / The Case Against the
Draft: The Heritage Foundation's Research / Feulner on Friedman: A Tribute /
What Correa's Win Means in Ecuador / 2008 Looks Good for Dems / What Does Putin
Want? / America's energy policy / Can the PKK Renounce Violence? / Untold story
of the holy sheikh who attacked a Delta flight attendant / Coulter Gets Results
/ “Kramer” apologizing for his ugly racist rant to Al Sharpton and Jesse
Jackson / An anti-CIA operation funded and championed by the European
Parliament / Olmert’s Failed Approach / Anyone in America Ever Heard of the
Power of a Little Fear? / Jimmy Carter's Jewish Problem / Meet Speaker Pelosi's
Constituents / YouTube and intellectual property theft / The Dems call in the
legal cavalry to contest a lost race / Polonium 210 / A stable and moderately
free Iraq may be beyond the Iraqis' reach / Benedict's Seminar on Fundamentals:
The pope enters the greatest military and intellectual battle of our age /
Mexican lawlessness is reaching epidemic proportions / France measures up Ségo
and Sarko / Kazakhs are laughing together with Borat -- all the way to the bank
/ Nepal: The Maoists may revolt if they don't win the elections / The New
Intolerance / Itamar Marcus discusses his role as head of Palestinian Media
Watch / Hurricane Update, Again / Flood-tolerant rice could aid environment
Thursday
Nov 30, 2006
Programs
Will Help Fight Trafficking in Persons / Organization Helps Colombians Get
Medical Care in US / Statement by the Press Secretary on Congolese Elections
(DRC) / No Justification for a Military Draft / A Message for Maliki: Bush Must
Make Clear Iraq's Responsibilities / Corruption in health care / The Myth of
Network Neutrality and What We Should Do About It / Testing for Citizenship /
The story behind the murder of Litvinenko / Elizabeth Kantor's The Politically
Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature / Maryland school district
allows Islamic indoctrination / Firing Qassams into Israel despite deal / How
to turn election defeat into a Social Security rout / The NYSE and NASD merge
enforcement operations / Oil for Food: A U.N. scandal gets the right attention
down under / Action Plan for Capital Markets: How to balance the costs and
benefits of regulation / When Should the U.S. Withdraw? Ask the Iraqis. Only
they know if U.S. troops are welcome / Ground zero is a depressing symbol of
the Pataki years / Academic Freedom in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania / The
radicalization of the American academy / "Borat": The Memo /
Citigroup cuts NYT to "sell" rating / Fires Dampen Warming Scare /
Spatial Analyses of Climate Forcings And Their Influence on Atmospheric and
Ocean Circulations / Land-use/land-cover Change And Its Impact On Climate /
Turning anger into a trend story means abusing common sense / ECO-FREAKS:
“Environmentalists have long admitted to using fear to arouse public action”
Wednesday
Nov 29, 2006
Container
Security at U.S. Ports / The NATO Riga Summit: Time for Backbone in the
Alliance / NATO in Afghanistan: A Test Case for Future Missions / Gemayel
Assassination Underscores Lebanon's Need for U.S. Support in Struggle Against
Syria / Diary of a Collapsing Superpower / What’s at stake as Benedict XVI
travels to Turkey / The Return of the Taliban: Why negotiation is not an option
/ The Minneapolis Six Sabotage Airline Security / Presbyterians Disown Their
Own 9/11 Conspiracy / The Israel-Palestinian ceasefire is just an opening act /
Nathan Tabor's The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America’s
Sovereignty and Security / How Botox and not Medi-Cal helps fund cancer
treatment / Arthur C. Brooks's Who Really Cares? / Putin's Poison? / Alcee
Hastings / Searching for Victory in Iraq / New Speaker, Old Virtues / GOP Must
Return to Centrist Roots / Bush and Maliki: The real enemy in Iraq is not a
"civil war" / The Devaluationists / The Supreme Court tackles Eliot
Spitzer's regulatory ambitions / The police culture in our country emphasizes
"officer safety" / America Doesn't Cut and Run, but nor does it write
blank checks / Environment of the people, by the people, for the people / The
newspaper industry has a future / Big music firms aren't necessarily evil / The
Mannesmann Trifle: A criminal corporate case in Germany will end the way it
started: as farce / The EU's law on excise duties harms free trade and tax
competition / Musharraf has a chance to advance women's rights / Return of the
Camorristi: Southern Italy seems like a kind of perpetual Wild West / Why Won't
Wellington Cut Taxes? / Film Censorship 101 / Drug price debate needs a dose of
reality / Bogus Toy Danger / Carcinogenicity of household solid fuel combustion
and of high-temperature frying / An All-Natural Chemical Feast / EU cautious on
US plan to milk cloned cows
Tuesday
Nov 28, 2006
Pelosi
Announces Democratic Forum On Iraq / Quartet of ladies shows where we're headed
/ Stopping Medical Tariffs, Cutting Corruption Are Mission Possible / Schumer
Triumphant / Bashar al-Assad's Offer Must Be Refused / John Bolton / Putin
Tries to Depose a Neighbor / Trusted to make good decisions about secrecy /
Right War, Botched Occupation / Andrew Sullivan charges that Rumsfeld
sanctioned torture at Abu Ghraib / Greens for Murder in Massachusetts / Cindy
Does Seoul / The plan for endlessly investigating the Bush administration /
Promoting the end of Israel under the guise of "peace" / Dial
Joe-4-Chávez / NATO and the Taliban: The Anglo-Saxons fight; the French and
Germans don't / Republican Rehab: A much-needed earmark intervention / The
Deferred Prosecution Racket: Heard about the Bristol-Myers Squibb chair at
Seton Hall? / The West's Eastern Front: Who are the Turks, and what do they
want? / Russia has become openly, and often gratuitously, hostile to the U.S. /
It's good to see private equity firms in Asia stirring things up / Vietnam's
Ransom: So much for aspirations of joining the world business community /
Italy's Accounting Miracle / Kramer vs. Kramer: In America today, bigots mostly
hurt themselves / Climate: Dimming Fights Drought? / Paper On the Complexity Of
The Climate System / Four big, fat myths
Monday
Nov 27, 2006
Refugees
Find a Welcoming Home in Virginia / Remarks by the Secretary of Homeland
Security Michael Chertoff / Global Warming Insurance is a Bad Buy / Saudis need
a mirror to see injustice / Another French Revolution? / Retreat would win us
no friends and lose us no adversaries / Milton Friedman's Case / Iran's Suicide
Brigades / Does Gates's History Mean Continuity or Change in Iraq? / The
political agenda behind the campaign for "shareholder democracy" /
The Bush administration, Syria and Lebanon / Litvinenko: The ex-colonel's fate
may lead to a different relationship between Russia and the West / Charities:
Who gives, and who doesn't -- and why / Time for the SEC to show it's serious
about policing fraud / What's So Great About Private Equity / Robert A.M.
Stern's tour of the Big Apple's architectural core / The Litvinenko murder and
Putin's Russia / The U.S. and Europe must take the lead in rescuing the Doha
round / Ching Cheong's Appeal / Beijing aims for a pan-East Asian trading zone
/ Campus Anti-Semitism / Much has been accomplished in the battle for higher
education / Vitamins can prevent heart disease?
Friday
Nov 24, 2006
The
World According to Jimmy Carter / What the Islamists Have Learned: How to
defeat the USA in future wars / Ukraine: A Revolution Recedes / How Bush Could
Stabilize the Mideast / The New Black Power in Congress / Latin American
Politics: Leftism Repudiated / Bureaucratic Bungling Bedevils Biotech /
Sustainable Food for the World / Pierre Gemayel / Feeding the Crocodile /
Extremist Muslims threaten to boycott US Airways / Confronting Iran / Iraq: The
Democrats' Tar-Baby / State and Local Law Enforcement / A Dynamic Analysis of
the 2001 and 2003 Bush Tax Cuts / Islamic Veil / The Syria/Iraq Nexus / China
bought bomber secrets / Allah’s England? / War Has No "Elegant
Solutions" / Beaten in Iraq by a few thousand cutthroats? / Mark Steyn
comes up short / Kim Jong Il's Bankers / A Democratic Tax Cut: West Virginia's
Democratic governor / New evidence that newcomers create jobs and wealth /
Milton Friedman Was Right: Corporate social responsibility continues to cost
shareholders / Operation Gobbler / Stomping Bush May Impose Steep Price / Some
Latin terrorists have even written books boasting about their criminal pasts /
Prime Minister Balkenende's win spells trouble ahead / Sheehan: America's
anti-war demagogue protests in South Korea / Tokyo's Taxes / Japan's sustained
and inexorable population decline / David Evanier's The Great Kisser / Should
Scientific Societies Issue Position Statements? / Cranberry Health Claims: A
Thanksgiving Turkey? / EU Biotech Crop Regulations and Environmental Risk
Thursday
Nov 23, 2006
Perils
of Closing Border to Investors / Lessons From the Saudis / Korean Nukes Could
Mean War / The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change / Comments on
the Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change / Putting Homeland Security
First / Rethinking the Egypt-Israel "Peace" Treaty / A new war looms
in Lebanon / The Assassination of Pierre Gemayel / China Military Buildup Aimed
at U.S. Navy / The Other Milton Friedman / The Medieval and Roman Warm Periods
in Antarctica [Ross Sea] / The Hydrologic Cycle on the Tibetan Plateau:
1961-2000 / Importance Of Ocean Heat Content Changes In The Assessment of
Global Warming / Media Distort Health Risks, Say Experts / Malaria: no time to
pass the buck / New form of DDT to fight malaria / Letterman Mocks ACSH Over
Smokeless Tobacco?
Wednesday
Nov 22, 2006
Internet
and technology training to Rural Vietnam / TABOR - Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights /
Remembering Ortega’s Marxist Gulag / Tabatabainejad, UCLA police / The
Washington Meat Grinder / Is Britain Lost? / Will the West Stumble?: The terror
war comes to a crossroads in Iraq / Debate in Saudi Arabia on employment
opportunities for women / Minimum Wage Muddle / Why I Smoke (Cigars) / Make
poverty history: first by getting rid of the greens / Organs for Sale / Rwanda
Redux / How to Win the Real War / A chronicle of Plymouth Colony in 1620 /
Enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth /
Another murder in Beirut for Jim Baker to contemplate / Who wants to kill
Alexander Litvinenko? / Why Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was so important / So
Nasdaq made another move for the London Stock Exchange. Who cares? / Mergers
alone won't make the U.S. airline industry profitable / Cracking Open China's
Banks / It's good to be Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi /
Betting on China's Volatility / Milton Friedman and his Latin American critics
/ Free speech finds no home at Columbia University? / Arctic cooler than in
1930s & 1940s / Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore: Pollution, Hurricane
Catarina, Warming Rate, Moulins / Fast Food Nation
Tuesday
Nov 21, 2006
Additional
Emergency Food Assistance to Sudan / Hezbollah Urges Protests To Topple Gov't /
Is Economic Freedom for Everyone? / The Bush-Putin Hanoi Summit: Iran, Georgia,
Energy, and WTO / John Bolton: An Effective Force for U.S. Interests at the
United Nations / Charlie Rangel Wants to Draft Your Daughter (And Your Mom,
Too) / Blaming the Jihad on the Jews / Larry Elder's Michael & Me on
"Bowling for Columbine" / The UN solution to global warming is worse
than the problem / Vatican officials oppose Saddam's execution / Why Muslims
rarely speak out, even in the US / Gitmo Captives Not POWs, Just Prisoners /
More American troops are needed to break the cycle of violence in Iraq / Return
to Ramadi / Why a regional conference won't solve our Iraq problem / Why Bush
chose Robert Gates / Report on North Korean Nuclear Program / Rebuilding in
Iraq tops 4,000 projects / Joint Statement Between the United States and the
Republic of Indonesia / The meaning of the latest buying and selling / Mexico's
failed presidential candidate won't go away / Textiles: The Bush
Administration's needless new protectionism / Realists may give up the triumph
of Bush's push for democracy / Economy: There's a brief policy window before
it's election time again / How to jump-start the Iraqi military / Syria: Will
Walid al-Moallem pull us up -- or try to sink us? / Congo: A democracy
promotion effort that Europe likes / Tokyo's Leverage Over Pyongyang /
Pennsylvania Legislative Committee advocates sweeping reforms to campus
policies / “False Alarm: Atlantic Conveyor Belt Hasn’t Slowed Down After All” /
Multi-Decadal Global Climate Models Represent The Radiative Effect of Well-Mixed
Greenhouse Gases? / Notions for a Fast Food Nation / New car smell health scare
/ Incessant, uninformed and highly politicized meddling by prominent members of
Congress / Breast cancer risk linked to red meat?
Monday
Nov 20, 2006
State’s
Dobriansky Recaps U.S. Efforts on Climate Change / U.S., India To Form Coal
Methane Information Center / Airbus Blamed for Poor French Economic Growth /
Shareholder Activists: Premature Elation? / The Status Quo Ante Does Not Solve
the Problem / NCAA, The Fighting Sioux: North Dakota U's sports teams hold off
political correctness / Schumacher's A Bloody Business: America's War Zone
Contractors and the Occupation of Iraq / Can Iraqis Keep Their Republic? / Does
the West have the self-confidence to fend off radical Islam? / Examining the
consequences of "redeployment" / Lincoln Reconsidered / The Minimum
Necessary / The Passion of the Pope / Kissinger: Iran despises weakness / AHIP:
The good, and bad, of new private health care ideas / Democrats seem to have
absorbed the election's lessons better than the GOP / Silicon implants and
science / Rumors swarm that Bush may be willing to raise taxes / O.J. Simpson's
"confession" gets staged and promoted / Indonesia: Modernity stands a
fighting chance in the world's most populous Muslim country / Chicago: A merger
might not benefit the market / Kosovo: Moderate Serbs have long lost interest
in the province / Indonesia remains far from a fully functioning democracy /
Amy Gutmann, Pennsylvania U, Saad Saadi, Halloween costume / A Longer Record of
Greenland Air Temperature / Draft American Meterological Society Statement on
Climate Change / Changes in sexual behaviours to prevent HIV
Friday
Nov 17, 2006
Fusing
Homeland Defense Competency / Congress Returns to Spending Bills Loaded With
Pork / U.S. Interests and Central Asia Energy Security / Choosing Murtha Is No
Way to Start the Most Ethical Congress / Post-Mortem 2006: What the Democrats’
Victory Means to Voters / The bottom-up plan to defeat the insurgency / What
the U.S. military is learning in Iraq: Adaptation / The world is getting warmer
and we cannot stop it / What can carbon markets do for economic development? /
Desperate Congresswomen of Hysteria Lane / LULAC and its allies decry new
anti-illegal immigration laws / Turning the Screws on the Dear Leader / The
Rise of an Islamist Somalia / Europe has been living under American protection
for far too long / Iraq's butchers exploit our morality / Friedman: The man who
made free markets popular again / Natural Political Gas / Friedman: Why Money
Matters / Don't Close the Door on Free Trade in the Andes / Reagan's Tax Cuts
25 Years Later / It's up to Russia to show it belongs in the WTO / A Dangerous
Seoul / A Communist Party more intent on free trade than the U.S. Congress /
Asia's Trade Blocks / Miami U's Short-Course in Radical Politics / Information
is often selectively presented to give a biased view against development / NPR:
Nasty to Puerto Ricans / Misrepresentations of Science in Policy Debate Related
to Disasters and Climate Change / Merger Of Air Quality Studies and Weather And
Climate Research / Red Meat Increases Risk of Breast Cancer -- or Does It?
Thursday
Nov 16, 2006
US
Funds Inexpensive Test That Detects H5N1 Infections Quickly and Accurately /
London vs. Washington Reporting on Prime Minister Blair's Remarks / Jimmy
Carter's Palestine Peace Not Apartheid / Card Check Undermines Workplace
Democracy / Blair is right to reject a pullout from Iraq, his efforts to engage
Iran and Syria are a major mistake / Advancing the Korea-U.S. FTA / Fixing the
energy crunch / Iran plotting to groom bin Laden's successor / Iran 'is
training the next al-Qa'eda leaders' / Elections May Divide Congress Even More
/ Iraqis are plagued about doubts about us, too / How capitalism can save
American health care / The making of a jumbo problem: Airbus, Lagardere, Chirac
/ Ortega on the Road of Chavismo / IAEA Finds Plutonium in Iran Waste Facility
/ Detroit and Bush / The new U.N. Human Rights Council is worse than the last /
Pelosi and Pork / Which Bipartisanship Will Bush Choose? / Israel has to
consider a pre-emptive strike against Iran / Trendy thinking in the higher
reaches of American education / Alabama: A Republican success in a Democratic
year / Tax Advice From Skopje / China's Growing Pains / Vietnam is slipping out
of the Communist leadership's control / Abe's New Nationalism: A strong
champion for freedom and democracy / Muhammad Mended His Own Clothes! / The
Lebanon "garbage dump" story: complete explanation / More Climate and
Disaster Nonsense / Surface Temperature Observation Sites in Mongolia /
Temperatures hotter than today in the last 2000 years / Penises in Peril!
Wednesday
Nov 15, 2006
USAID
Provides Emergency Food Assistance to Ethiopia / Chinese Sub Secretly Stalked
U.S. Fleet / Nuclear-arms race in the Middle East? / The "God Is on Our
Side" Lie / The Federal Budget's Long Emergency / Does European Islam Mean
Islamic Europe? / New Democrats Sing Old, Populist Tune on Economy / Elections
2006 / The Return of Two-Party Rule / Rove believed in his metrics. He
miscalculated / Ekin Deligoz: Germany’s Headscarf Scandal / A well-received
book endorses pre-emptive war...against Hitler / Gitmo: The lame excuses of
"innocent" detainees / Maqdisi's Minions / The New Palestinian Peace
Sham / Defending against Iran's Missiles / Arms Control with China? / Democrats
and Trade / The Bangladeshi government's self-inflicted wounds / Kent Conrad
and "fiscal responsibility" / American Workers Have a Chance to Be
Heard / CIRA: Retirement accounts and a bipartisan Congress / Jeffrey Sachs
disses Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek / The Times and Reality /
Microfinance / Croatian Spin Doctors / Beijing's WTO promises aren't what they
seem / Vietnam is still a difficult place to do business / CAIR vs. DePaul Univ
/ End of deforestation in view? / CO2 Emissions Link to Temperature Trends: A
Quandary? / Drought Data / Role Of Aerosols In Altering Regional Weather
Patterns / Trans Fat Threat Exaggerated by Some Doctors
Tuesday
Nov 14, 2006
Post-Thumpin'
Politics / Election Leaves Political Landscape Blurry / Will the New Democratic
Majority Endure? / For Dems, Rubinomics or Protectionism? / John McCain Had a
Good Election Day / McCain Wants to Look Inevitable / Will Rumsfeld's Reforms
Last? / Don't Punt on The Troops Issue / Countering Iran's Oil Weapon /
Equipping the Army National Guard for the 21st Century / The Legal Lynching of
Rumsfeld / Rubin's Tax Gambit: Raising taxes amid a housing decline doesn't
sound like brilliant policy / Same-Sex Chicanery / Save the Fish: Why not sell
our fisheries to the fishermen? / The Third California / 1981: Once upon a
time, Democrats were supply-siders too / Father Knows Best? Four shorthands of
the Bush 41 record / Normalizing the relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam
/ The nasty tactics of Markus Wolf / MSU Settles Academic Freedom Lawsuit /
Australia: The incredible shrinking drought / Agricultural Biotechnology:
Overregulated and Underappreciated
Monday
Nov 13, 2006
Tour
of Guantanamo Prison Shows America at Its Best / Russia Celebrates the
Democratic Victory / The Pentagon's Inadequate Vision for Safeguarding U.S.
Soil: What’s Needed from the Reserve Components / Grassroots Response: Citizens
Taking Care of Citizens During Disasters / Who Will Regulate the Regulators?
The Battle Over Susan Dudley and OIRA / WWF says if current trends continue,
the Earth will be too small to sustain humanity / The Gaza Artillery Strike:
Holding Israel to impossible standards / A Veterans Day Salute / French Airport
Alarm / Varieties of Anti-Americanism / "Change" Does Not Mean
"Surrender" / Republicans: One party of big-spenders got beaten by
another / Only a Minor Earthquake / Republicans are no longer seen as the party
of limited government / Democrats at the Gates / Taking a Bow, by Markos
Moulitsas / What Really Happened Tuesday? / Six Reasons Why Tuesday Wasn't That
Bad / The '06 Winners And Losers / Olmert's Ill-Timed Washington Visit / Win or
Lose, Democracy Stands / Stern report on climate change / Speaker Pelosi's
Impending Intelligence Failure / A review of Robert Irwin's Orientalism and Its
Discontents / Simplified tax systems promote economic growth / Bolton and
Bipartisanship / The Wal-Mart class action model starts to spread / Rumsfeld
and the Realists / Drugs: How can the government determine what price is
"fair"? / Among physical functions, the sneeze stands entertainingly
alone / Can Mike Pence Win? / Socialist Conservatives: David Cameron breaks
with Tories on taxes / Balkan Procrastinators: Martti Ahtisaari puts off his
recommendations for Kosovo's future / Vietnam's economy is hot, but not without
problems / A Tenuous Peace in Nepal / A culture of ideological uniformity
threatens higher education / Kenneth Kaunda on Boston U and ABC / Troops &
Loss Of Rumsfeld, by The Times of London and The New York Times / Mark Steyn’s
America Alone / A New Perspective For Assessing The Role Of Agriculture In The
Climate System And In Climate Change / Normalized US Hurricane Damage:
1900-2005 / Interview with Richard Tol on Stern Review / An Interview with Dr.
Chris Landsea / Trans Fat Hysteria Could Be Lawsuit Bonanza / Why Consensus In
Malaria Policy Is a Killer / Uganda: Vitamin A Fortified Potato to Combat
Blindness
Friday
Nov 10, 2006
Pelosi
Can Use the Lame Duck Session to Restore Integrity to the Federal Budget
Process / A Border Security Strategy for Bush and Calderón / After Rumsfeld:
Next Steps for the National Defense / The Basel II Bank Capital Accord /
Playing Medi-Scare Again / President Bush dumps Rumsfeld / The Road to
Withdrawal always starts at home / Historic Victory for Diebold! / Palestinian
death cult puts female suicide at the core / The House GOP needs a new
generation of leaders / Immigration: So much for the Lou Dobbs election strategy
/ Gates Crasher: Replacing Rumsfeld / Why the Republicans were beaten like a
rented mule / Team 41 Is a Threat to Bush Legacy / The Other Winner in
Nicaragua / Germany: A few ideas to fix the Continent's once-proud universities
/ Is Afghanistan a success? Ask the Afghans / Servan-Schreiber: The Tocqueville
of the 20th century / Alan Weisman's Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and
Times of Dan Rather / Not Quiet on the Hurricane Front / The trouble with
making combination drugs / US environmental health agency makes information
publicly available / Chemicals and Kids' Brains / Letter to the AMA on Taxing
Soft Drinks / Plan B Plan Announced
Thursday
Nov 09, 2006
Three
U.S. Firms Win Awards for Work in Latin America / Ortega's Comeback: Charisma
with an Iron Grip? / Saddam Hussein Adjudged Serial Mass Murder / Hezbollah
Power Grab / The Alternative Minimum Tax. A Better System? / How to Judge the
Trial of Saddam / Climate Change Issues: The Problem of Unwarranted Trust /
Britain's Stern Review on Global Warming: It Could Be Environmentalism's Swan
Song / Eyes Turn to 2008 Presidential Prize / McCain Gains Political Capital in
Elections / Why Democrats Won for a Change / The Good News And The Bad / FedEx
Express cancels Airbus A380 order / The election was a referendum on GOP
failure / The Robert Gates choice won't reassure Iraq's Shiites / End of the
Revolution. And how Republicans can start the next one / A few proposals to
reinvigorate the Bush presidency / In the Borat movie, you need a heart of
stone to keep on laughing / Michael Steele is effectively reduced to a
political footnote / Voters punished Republicans for not being Republicans /
President Bush is committed to Doha. But the U.S. can't do all the heavy
lifting alone / Burma's Trapped Refugees / Back to Basics at the CIA / NYT's
Blatant Double Standard on Classified Documents / Solar Forcing of Climate /
Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance / Tropical Cyclones of the North Atlantic
Basin / Effects of Elevated CO 2 on Nitrogen Assimilation by Soybeans /
Resurrecting the Terrestrial Biota of the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Arc /
Influence of Anthropogenic Surface Processes on Lower Tropospheric And Surface
Temperature Trends / No Ramp-Up in Damaging Snowstorms / The reality is that
everything is made of chemicals / Retinal transplants help restore sight in
mice
Wednesday
Nov 08, 2006
What
We Have Here Is Failure to Cooperate: The Thompson Memorandum and Federal
Prosecution of White-Collar Crime / ACLU’s self-proclaimed strategy to
internationalize the nation / The Truth About "Palestine" / A Trip to
Guantanamo / Shiites Draft Law to Reinstate Saddam Backers After Death Sentence
/ Pelosi's Platform Does Not Inspire Confidence / A big environmental case hits
the Supreme Court / Iran's Target Practice: The mullahs' huge investment in
ballistic-missile technology / Vouchers: How choice helps school integration /
"Extremely negative" political advertising / ACORN comes under
scrutiny / Caveat Auditor? / The FCC suffers a nervous breakdown / From Brussels
to Ankara: The gulf between the leading Muslim democracy and its Western
neighbors / Ban's Nuclear Priorities: Just imagine what he'll do at the U.N. /
When the U.S. coughs, Europe still gets a cold / Central Europe isn't turning
its back on democracy or capitalism / Taiwan's 'Refuse-to-Lose' Crowd / Faith
and the American Founding: Illustrating Religion's Influence / The Arctic
Precipitation Conundrum / Another Paper That Documents An Effect Of
Urbanization On Weather and Climate / How to Make Our Food Safer / Oil
companies tackle malaria in Africa
Tuesday
Nov 07, 2006
Keep
the Pressure on Kim Jong-il / A Strong Pre-Election Jobs Report, Thanks to Good
Economic Policy / Election season is bad time for slip of the quip / Leaked UN
report shows Stern is wrong on climate / Ahmadinejad Clamps Down on Speech /
China defense budget / Two Very Different Visions for America / Howard Dean:
Isn't It Time for A New Direction? / Bring GOP's One-Party Rule to an End /
Republicans Will Hold On / Can the Democrats Stay Afloat? / Ignore Democrat
Spin; Bush Economy Is Solid / No Matter Results, Midterms Will Change Little /
Wisconsin's Cheesy Reformers / Eliot Spitzer cleans up Albany, or maybe not /
The dishonest attacks on an equal rights initiative / The True Ideological Battle
/ Saddam's sentence should serve as a lesson to dictators everywhere / Clifford
Geertz contributed to the illogic which plagues the social sciences / Saving
Lebanon will require focus, nerve and imagination / France wants to use the EU
to export their wrong-headed ideas / Taiwan's Democracy Test / The beginning of
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign / The Press at War / Was The 2003
European Summer Heat Wave Unusual In A Global Context? / Chaotic world of
climate truth
Monday
Nov 06, 2006
Stern
Review: Costs of averting climate change / Stupid Soldiers: Central to the
Left's Worldview / Representative Weldon's Countdown to Terror / How Russia
Arms Terror / Islam: What the West Needs to Know / Richard Gere's new movie
whitewashes Croat fascists / Shocker: NYT Confirms Iraqi Nuclear Weapons
Program / A chance for the Fed to rethink its inflation models / Justice for
Saddam / Saddam's guilty verdict is more proof that the Coalition was right to
overthrow him / Republicans abandoned reform, and the consequences have been
dire / The Green Card / The plight of North Korean orphans / Cyprus Decides,
Greece Follows / China's Trillion-Dollar Reserves / Testing Japan's Resolve /
Women's Studies at Ball State University / The Atlantic's current changes are no
cause for alarm / Grape harvest dates are poor indicators of summer warmth /
The Economics And Politics Of Climate Change: An Appeal To Reason / No new ice
age for western Europe / Celebs Mislead Californians on Air Pollution Threat
Friday
Nov 03, 2006
US
Health Institutes Fund Awards for International Health Research / Mexico's
Answer to El Muro / Grim Future for Taiwan's Defenses / A Better Measure of
Long-Term Spending: FASAB Proposes Changes in Accounting for Social Security,
Medicare / Regime Change in Paris: How Nicolas Sarkozy Could Reinvigorate
U.S.-French Relations / Rethinking Immigration Proposals: Security and
Enforcement Gaps / Private Contractors on Deployed Military Operations:
Inter-Agency Opportunities and Challenges / Robert Spencer discusses his new
book about the Founder of Islam / End of the NSA Program? / Let Israel Fight
Back / The myth that Palestinians are ready for peaceful co-existence / New
York Times' Errors on Terror / Mahmoud Abbas' newspaper channels Mein Kampf /
Sowell on the Election / Senator Kerry, Media Darling / My Bizarre Libyan
Holiday / This is no time to go wobbly on North Korean finances / More U.N.
Corruption / The Acorn Indictments: The union-backed outfit and election fraud
/ Federal Censorship Commission? / Pascal Lamy: The Doha Marathon / Blues
Project: Depressed Voters Roll the Dice / What's the Matter with Oaxaca? / The
courts overrule the best interests of Mannesmann shareholders / China puts on a
big show for African heads of state / Vietnam's Hostages -- II / South Africa's
Communist Democracy / China's Political Courts / Catch a Fire / Representing
Atmospheric Processes In Weather and Climate Models / Interlinked Role Of
Changes In Radiative Forcings And Hydrology In The Climate System / Climate
Models / Alar Dangers and Other Superstitions, Fifteen Years Later / Forget
Trans Fats -- Remember Salmonella? / Anti-salt advocacy
Thursday
Nov 02, 2006
Assistance
Spurring Economic Growth in Lebanon / Grants To Study Ecology of Infectious
Diseases / U.S. Agencies Fund Project To Sequence Honeybee Genome / U.S. Policy
in Northeast Asia / Muslim leader says unveiled women deserve to get raped /
Confronting the North Korean Threat / The Dalai Lama likens Islamic terrorists
to ADD-riddled schoolkids / Sderot's Trauma / HAMAS: The EU turns a blind eye
to the true terror threat / Asia’s Economic Size Needs Fairer Representation /
Airbus: Good News and Bad News / John Kerry Responding to Republican
Distortions, Pathetic Tony Snow Diversions and Distractions / Bangladeshi
Muslim journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury / Climate Non-Conformity / Red
wine and health / Ortega's Strange Allies / Stern Review: The dodgy numbers
behind the latest warming scare / Zimbabwe has increasingly used violent means
to suppress criticism / A Democratic candidate for Senate makes it a referendum
on the president / China's Barefoot Lawyer / How about we whitewash every
tradition so nobody can be offended / New Northern Eurasian Snow Cover Data Not
Cooperating / Media coverage on supposed risks from cosmetics / Scientists
Conclude Health Effects of Trans Fatty Acids Exaggerated / Proposed Regulation
of Trans Fatty Acids in Restaurant Food / Death by Trans Fats? Not Quite
Tuesday
Oct 31, 2006
Who
Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Enlistment,
2003–2005 / Pelosi's Stake in Illegal Immigration / Media Matters’ Attack on
The Shadow Party / Don't Tread on Me. A 400-year history of America at war,
from Indian-fighting to terrorist-hunting / Robert Spencer’s The Truth About
Muhammad / Tet Part II: CNN's Snuff Film / California signs onto Kyoto Protocol
just as it falls apart / Brazil plans to build seven nuclear reactors / Israel
policy of terrorist preemption / Targeting Hedge Funds / Another failure to
enforce No Child Left Behind / The Six-Year Itch / Team Welch's bid for the
Boston Globe / The unions cannot hold back progress forever / Giving Iran the
Bomb / The Silence of the Afghans / Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers /
Bloggers vs. Mullahs: How the Internet Roils Iran / Stern Review / Yes, global
warming is a real threat / The temperature is as likely to go down as up / Too
Stern a view of climate change
Monday
Oct 30, 2006
$461
Million for Mali / Bad Climate Science Yields Worse Economics / Barack Obama / America's
image / A New Strategy for Control of Illegal Immigration / The North European
Gas Pipeline Threatens Europe’s Energy Security / Denying Terrorists Safe Haven
in Pakistan / Our policy for Iraqi Islamists should involve fewer carrots and
more bayonets / U.N.'s effect on America sovereignty / None of Bolton's Good
Deeds Go Unpunished / Canada's Liberal Jew-Hate / Al Qaeda’s Nukes / Mubarak
and HAMAS publicly question whether maybe they're to blame for Islamic
extremism / Details are now emerging of Hezbollah's total disregard of civilian
life / Lebanon's Irrelevant Presidency / Ethanol in Brazil / An accounting
proposal only tax raisers could love / Al Gore is all the rage in . . . Belgium
/ Beijing takes some protectionist cues from Capitol Hill / Diversity's
Oppressions / US capital market regulations require careful cost-benefit
analysis / Mark Sanford may be the only small-government conservative left in
the Republican Party / Hungary needs a miracle to get rid of the Soviet troops
/ Regional precipitation and droughts in Africa / Tropical Cyclones in the
Pacific Ocean / Nonlinearities in the Earth’s Climate System
Friday
Oct 27, 2006
U.S.
Awards $100 Million to Fuel Cell Research and Development / U.S. Firms Gearing
Up to Tackle Environmental Challenges / Fiscal Policy Lessons from Europe /
Homeland Security Authorization Key to DHS Performance, Oversight / The
intimate story of two families joined by war, torn by beliefs / Halloween
Costume: Patriot / The price of throwing Chalabi overboard / See No Hezbollah;
Hear No Hezbollah; Speak No Hezbollah / Importing Poverty: Immigration and
Poverty in the US / Bush Should Focus on North Korea / Kill Union Special
Interests / Japan's Quiet Revolution / Why Withdrawal from Iraq Is the Worst
Option / Setting the Record Straight: Mainstream Media Reports Inaccurate;
Distort Prime Minister Maliki's Press Conference / Exclusive: Hillary Clinton
On Israel, Iraq And Terror / Maliki and the GI / New Jersey's court orders up
some "social change" / Insurers want taxpayers to protect them from
risk / Gays have married. The sky hasn't fallen. / Why shareholder democracy
matters / Bush Talks About 'The Next Attack on America' / Cubans Begin to Just
Say No / Remember Kosovo: Nation-building is not for the faint of heart / The
Gore Tax: The former Vice President peddles his ideas in Belgium / Australia's
Media Shakeout: Deregulation shuffles the decks Down Under / Should a French
cop killer be canonized? / Plundering China's Reserves / Special treatment for
Air America? / Investigating Alternative Medicine / Moderate Alcohol
Consumption Can Benefit Healthy Men
Thursday
Oct 26, 2006
U.S.
compliance with noncombatant immunity / Finish the Job in Iraq / Joseph C.
Phillips, black identity and American identity / Iran: The terror regime's new
"peaceful" façade / How we're paying Beijing to do nothing on North
Korea / In Iraq, Stay the Course - But Change It / James Baker's Iraq Study
Group / Courts Missed Opportunity On Wetlands, Made Situation Worse / GM crops,
DDT and Frankenstein foods: Exaggerating the risks / Baghdad Vigilantes and the
Dark Side of Civil Society / Czech Republic: the country without a government /
ElBaradei goes soft on Iran, but hard on Congress / Imagine that: Oil companies
are subject to market forces / The tort bar's ally at the Justice Department /
A U.S. Embassy in Pyongyang / Iran: How can you have a revolution when everyone
is watching TV? / Michigan: The state's tanking economy / A corker of a race in
Tennessee / Back to Deutschland AG: The return of the stubborn losers, trying
to resist globalization / Intellectual Indoctrination and Academic Fraud /
China: Climate variations are strongly controlled by the Sun and the Little Ice
Age signal is clear / States’ Global Warming Case / Frontiers in Germicidal
Living
Wednesday
Oct 25, 2006
Presidential
Message: Eid al-Fitr / A non-military response to North Korea / CAIR, defendant
in a 9/11 lawsuit, giving a speech about 9/11 / Death to the Apostates: Abdul
Rahman, Afghanistan / An insider’s account of the War on Terror: John Yoo /
Brownout in California / Election & Republicans: Blank Check from America?
/ The frightening advance of Islamists in Somalia / Mahdi Madness / What Drives
Jihad? / PA Educational TV: Jews Have No Connection to the Western Wall / The
insurgents are hitting their targets -- in Washington / Pakistan's Sovereignty,
Afghanistan's biggest problem / Bankrupt Opposition: The predicted doom has not
arrived / A Border Affair / Spitzer Is Good for Business / A Mercenary Force
for Darfur / Stolt-Nielsen / Who's Afraid of RFID? / North Korea bolsters
Shinzo Abe's LDP / Britain holds a lively debate over women's wear / Cambodian
Crimes / Faculty members must celebrate “diversity” – or else / This is the NY
Times on drugs / NIH-funded researcher begins jail term on Hormone Replacement
Therapy / Flu Preparedness at the New York Academy of Sciences / Chemicals and
Pubescence
Tuesday
Oct 24, 2006
US
Gives $10 Million To Develop Global Flu Vaccine / Chavez's Theater of the
Absurd / Gregg Jackson's Conservative Comebacks / Fiddling While Europe Burns /
A high school teacher's disturbing campaign against Israel / Liam Fox,
"shadow defense minister" / American “Stupidity” and “Arrogance” in
Iraq / Iraq: The Wonders of Hindsight / New York City’s shortage of office
space / Promote Andean Free Trade But Limit Preferences / The Don't Show Me
State / Ahmadinejad Does Europe / Beijing acts against North Korea; Seoul
doesn't / Bipartisan Redeployment / A protectionist backlash in Beijing / Hedge
funds are not a "systemic risk" to the financial markets / Three Ways
to War in Gaza / Islam and Politics in Indonesia / The most influential Briton
of recent decades / The Last King of Scotland: about Idi Amin / Byron Calame:
"vicious criticism of the Times"? / Diatom Diatribe / Tropical Seas
Sink Hockey Stick / Radiative Forcing due to Land Use Change in Southwest
Australia / Don't Fear Spinach -- Irradiate It / GM peanut is enriched with
vitamins
Monday
Oct 23, 2006
Correa
vs. Noboa: Ecuador's Choice Between 'Marx' and Markets / North Korea: Empty
Rhetoric Is No Deterrent / American Mourning / Convert or Die / The
"Religious Right Supports Torture" Canard / Robert Brigham: Is Iraq
Another Vietnam? / In defense of liberty / Never Forget Syrian Atrocities / The
UN's Rigged Standards / The Paradox of Military Technology / World War II Is
Over: Allow Japanese Nukes / Successes of Health Savings Accounts / Ayaan Hirsi
Ali speaks more sense / The Cut-My-Salary Standard: Grasso-Spitzer case /
California's Bottomless Tax Well / Ohio's Bad Proposition: Raising the minimum
wage / The Hungarian Revolution: impotent, poignant, personal / Campus Jihad:
The radicalization of British universities / Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson
makes his way in the world / China Discovers Protectionism / The
Pseudo-Histories of the Iraq War / Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers / A
Global Warming Currency / Bogged Down in Soil Moisture / Fishy Dietary Advice
Friday
Oct 20, 2006
US
Helping Rid Central America of Land Mines / U.S. Awards Rural Finance Project
in Afghanistan / Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2007 / Poor
Countries Need Relief from the World Bank’s ‘Help’ on Malaria / Reality cures
economic hypochondria / North Korea now claims it is building a hydrogen bomb /
Lynne Stewart / Mazie Hirono / How to Lose A War: The Press and Viet Nam / The
U.S. spends relatively little on national security / Porthole Security / Tax
Cut Convert / There aren't any good choices for America in Iraq / Gas Tax /
Lieberman Rediscovers Belief In Connecticut / The election of Daniel Ortega
would be a self-inflicted injury for Nicaragua / The Russian president is in no
mood to play nice with the EU / Corruption and overregulation, not liberalism,
are what plague Central Europe / What College Students Must Endure, Part II /
Reason to believe, or not / Roy Brewer / Tread Carefully on Snow Cover / The
Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro / Health Effects of Low-Intensity Electric and
Magnetic Fields / Anthrax Vaccine: Still Effective and Safe Enough to Use / Population
Predictions Bomb: 300 Million in U.S. Still Thriving / Organic Farming &
Effect On Nutritional Content Of Wheat
Thursday
Oct 19, 2006
U.S.
Provides Emergency Food Assistance to Sudan and Eastern Chad / U.S. Accepting
Approximately 10,000 Refugees from Burundi / Immigration and pluralism in
Europe / DDT, Big Tobacco and Greens / Russia's Dying Democracy / Opeds Count
More in War than Bullets / New Jerusalem Mufti endorses suicide bombers / Bill
Clinton & Torture / Public Diplomacy Update From Under Secretary Karen
Hughes / Disarming the Mullahs / South Korea is dooming its free trade deal
with the U.S. / The Ninth Circuit strikes again / The 655,000 Fraud: Some
people want to believe the worst about Iraq / 'Get Out of the War on Terror'. A
stinging rebuke to the Supreme Court / Mr. Erdogan's Turkey: More Islam, less
Ataturk / As facts add up, ideas tend to go down / Ohio's Fall Guy: The right
candidate in the wrong year / The EU insists on telling us how to watch
television / Taxpayers make better choices if they know how their money is
spent / Russian Gas: Europe's road to more energy independence leads to the
Caucasus / America's Election Year Economics What College Students Must Endure
/ Claude Allegre and manmade catastrophic global warming / Focus On the Global
Average Surface Temperature Trend / Fish Intake, Contaminants, and Human
Health. Evaluating the Risks and the Benefits
Wednesday
Oct 18, 2006
Running
from Iraq: Don't imagine it will reduce the jihadist threat / Increasy the size
of the military, work with Japan, act in Sudan, insist on sanctions on Iran /
Shared Prosperity: Debunking Pessimistic Claims About Wages, Profits, and
Wealth / Homeland Security: Interagency Education, Assignments, and
Professional Accreditation / The U.S.-Korea Alliance / Canadian Muslim
reformers receive death threats – from Muslims / Putin devises a new divide and
conquer strategy / Calm, reasonable assessment of Bush's foreign policy / The
religious subjugation promoted by average, everyday Muslims / Richard Armitage
and the Quiet Death of Liberty TV / We Don't Need a Manhattan Project for
Energy / The American military understands how to fight counterinsurgency /
Europe's assault on tax competition / Theo-Panic! / The Wal-Mart Posse / Great
China Bank Sale / The aftermath of the spurned GM-Nissan-Renault alliance /
655,000 War Dead? / The Dartmouth Fracas / It's 1970 Again at Airbus; Boeing
has a decision to make / Why the British economy outperforms large Continental
economies / China's Fannie Mae? Investors bet that ICBC is too big to fail /
Race Relations in Malaysia / The Hamas Network / U.S., Russia, China Expand
High-Performance Research Network / Prof. Cotton on Climate Variability And
Change / Another Swipe at the Hockey Stick / The silence over new MMR research
/ WWF chemical campaigns 'misleading'
Tuesday
Oct 17, 2006
An
election Foley-equipped with frivolity / EU’s Barrot Eyes Military Use for
Galileo Satellite System / The Kids Are All Right / Columbia's Censorship, Act
2 / The New Old Eco-Pessimism / The Muslim cab drivers' anti-alcohol boycott
fizzles / Steve Emerson, executive director, Investigative Project on Terrorism
/ Keith Ellison’s Mysterious CAIR Meeting / Robert Spencer's The Truth About
Muhammad / Richard Allen discusses what to do with a nuclear Pyongyang / Root
causes of Islamic terrorism: deep disagreements / Sources of economic growth
and the ways that poverty has been alleviated over time / Minimum wage: cost of
raising the working poor out of poverty is being transferred from the taxpayers
to some other group / Counting the “Arbitrary” Costs of Global Warming / How
anti-dumping duties are hurting American workers / A case of radical chic and
the radical sheik / McGuire's Options: Why the UnitedHealth CEO really lost his
job / As long as tax rates are low, the economy will do just fine / American
demographics examined / Could Kim Jong Il be deterred? / The Arms-Control
Illusion: A short history of nonproliferation failure / Japan: Reported child
abuse cases are on the rise / The Hong Kong chief executive's Orwellian
somersault / Beijing's Bankruptcy Laws: Chinese banks face a steep learning
curve / Washington Steels Itself for Protectionism: Evan Bayh / Bt Cotton
Adoption in The United States and China: International Trade and Welfare
Effects / Impact of Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin on Dairy Farm Cost of
Production / National Organic Standards and Labeling of GM Products / Bt
Eggplant in India / Public Perceptions of Tobacco Biopharming / Trade
Implications of Adopting Bt Cowpea in West and Central Africa
Monday
Oct 16, 2006
USDA-DOE
Make Available $4 Million for Biomass Genomics Research / Chinook Helicopters
Complete Aid Deliveries to Remote Pakistan / US Wildlife Agency Helps
International Conservation / Muslim Taxi Drivers and Alcohol / Shoaib
Chourdhury / The 2006 Budget Numbers Show Impact of Pro-Growth Tax Policy, But
Also Continued Spending Increases / North Korea: Rewards that failed / They
Dare Call It Treason (Finally) / Symposium: Romancing Opiates / Pinning
Civilian Deaths on the Great Satan / North Korea: Clinton's Cadre Rejoice / The
West's Self-Imposed Censorship / Castro's Anti-Semitism / Fallujah: Baathist
and Wahhabist cooperation / Role of Biomass Burning In The Amazon On Clouds and
Precipitation / “Droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less
frequent, less severe, and cover a smaller portion of the country” /
Overturning Ocean Hype / White House: Setting the Record Straight: The
Associated Press' Iraq Analysis / Former Clinton Arms Negotiator Praises Bush
Administration / Paulson's China Victory: It's worth recounting that the trade
deficit with China is not a threat to U.S. prosperity / Here's one cause of the
GOP's profligacy / The world's club of dictators is backing Chávez's bid for a
Security Council seat / The Foley fuss is sad and sordid, but no hanging matter
or federal case / Great Leadership: Read all about it in Rodong Sinmun / Pamuk
/ A Tale of Two GOPs: The state of the party in Ohio versus Florida / Germany's
Return to Normal: Sclerotic, aging and in need of reform -- but not worse than
its neighbors / Blair and Ahern make headway in fulfilling the aims of a flawed
pact / France makes it a crime to deny the massacres of Armenians as genocide /
Hong Kong's chief executive sounds eerily like his Beijing masters / Cosmic
rays & Earth's climate / Accuracy Of The IPCC Models to Assess Regional
Weather Patterns / Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Report Which Illustrates The
Complexity Of The Climate System / Role of Land Surface Processes On Climate / Role
of Biomass Burning In The Amazon On Clouds and Precipitation / “Droughts have,
for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, less severe, and cover a
smaller portion of the country" / Overturning Ocean Hype / Switching to
Smokeless Tobacco Cuts Smokers’ Health Risks
Friday
Oct 13, 2006
Bush
proclaims deficit halved, three years early / Indoctrination U: Arizona State /
Forget North Korean nukes -- Mark Foley's the real threat! / The Saudi-Osama
Connection / Why Putin's Russia couldn't allow journalist Anna Politkovskaya to
live / Geoffrey Nyarota: Fighting Zimbabwe’s Monster / The Religious Left's
Conflicted Loyalties / China’s Charm Offensive / North Korea capitalizes on
America's fifth column / Why does the U.S. continue appeasing tyrants and terrorists
across the globe? / False comparisons with Israel's own nuclear capabilities /
Faster FDA Cures: Sorting fact from myth on drug approvals / Pamuk the
Provocative: A literature Nobel for a modern Muslim / Justice is right to let
telecom mergers proceed / What the 2006 numbers say about the Bush tax cuts /
Kim Jong Il's poker face / What's YouTube? / Uribe vs. the Drug Thugs: The
Colombian president's daunting challenges / Prof. John Gerassi supports terror
and demands the death of Israel / Columbia students, 45 years of quashing free
speech / Antarctic Ice Sheet (and the Plot) Thickens / Vaccine-Autism Scare /
"Natural" Milk -- Better for Whom? / Vaccinating School Children Also
Protects the Elderly / Acceptance of Biotechnology Growing, U.S. Official Says
Thursday
Oct 12, 2006
U.S.
Provides Assistance to Typhoon Victims in Vietnam / Streiff-torn Airbus / Is
Bush Science’s Nemesis? / A New Tack for China after North Korea’s Nuclear
Test? / U.S. Policy and the Georgian-Russian Crisis / Bush's Global Cultural
Initiative: A Step Toward Revitalizing U.S. Public Diplomacy / How to Approach
the China–North Korea Relationship / Economy Remains Strong: Unemployment Is
Low and Workers Are Sharing in Productivity Growth / Congress's contribution to
the options mini-scandal / The budget deficit news for fiscal 2006 was even
better than we thought / A Libel Landmark: "We need more such serious
journalism" / Saakashvili: "For us to stand tall, our friends must
stand tall beside us" / Laureate Phelps challenged views on the tradeoff
between unemployment and inflation / State and local governments are running up
huge obligations / Montana's U.S. Senate race is a sorry sight / Thailand: U.S.
military cooperation is on hold / Sound Science or Sound Bite? / Is there anything
that the President would have done differently? / Raining on Greenhouse
Predictions / Economist Article “The Heat is On” / Drug Pipeline Gets Clamped
by Jittery FDA / Drug Imports: A Prescription for Danger? / Study: Modern
Hatcheries Aid Wild Salmon
Wednesday
Oct 11, 2006
How
to respond to the Big Bang / Kim Jong-Il's Coming-Out Party / British
politician Jack Straw suggests Muslim women take off the burqa / The Simon
Wiesenthal Center’s Cuban Shame / Britain betrays its war veterans, and blames
America first / Taiwan finds itself between a rock and a red state / Dow Jones
and Tax Cuts / How protectionism --in all its many forms-- affects the new
global economy / Ahmadinejad: The intellectual sources of his apocalyptic
vision / Democrats reduced North Korea to political soundbites overnight /
Enlistment Success Story / Costa Rica has a chance to change the region /
Patricia Dunn: The H-P Investigation: "I asked the right questions of the
right people" / Keeping other states from following Pyongyang's
misbehavior / Airbus: An industrial policy that turns gold into straw / Typical
Backdating Miscreant: Apple / Prurience is no longer just an American vice / A
collective sigh of relief from U.S. expatriate workers / Tear Down that Fence /
Kilimanjaro Glaciers Exit the Debate / Not the Next Tobacco: Defenses to
Obesity Claims / GM crops blossom in SA
Tuesday
Oct 10, 2006
Philippines:
U.S. Provides Assistance to Typhoon Victims / Che Guevara: 39 Years of Idolatry
/ North Korea’s test / The rise and fall of the Valerie Plame 'scandal' /
Habeas corpus debate illustrates a dangerous trend in legal ignorance / Tariq
Ramadan visa / Nuclear Test Calls for Active Intolerance of North Korean Regime
/ North Korea's Nukes / Read Spitzer's Lips / Real Bad ID / Edmund Phelps,
Nobel Prize on Economics: Dynamic Capitalism: Entrepreneurship is lucrative --
and just / Dhaka: A gadfly Bangladeshi journalist runs for his life / The
self-destructive Gallic arrogance at Airbus lives on / For Austrian voters, no
good political deed goes unpunished / Nuclear Lessons . . . / . . . And No Good
Options: Outside pressure won't topple Kim Jong Il / China extends its
harassment to dissidents in American suburbs / Professors harassed and injured
a student recruiter / Wildfire induced land-cover changes on clouds and
precipitation
Monday
Oct 09, 2006
US,
Botswana Sign "Debt-for-Nature" Agreements / Chinooks Return to
Pakistan to Help Earthquake Victims / Hunger Strikes, Suicides and Suicide
Attempts, and the Detainees’ Mental Health / Congress Must Address Intelligence
Oversight, CFIUS Reform / The Rationale for a Statewide Health Insurance
Exchange / Homeland Security Technology, Global Partnerships, and Winning the
Long War / The Dangerous Consequences of Cutting and Running in Iraq / Balkan
lessons / Airbus restructuring setback / Amnesty for illegal immigrants brings
ever more illegals? / NZ To Seek Links With Non-Kyoto Climate Group / Lawrence
Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 / Suicide of the West
/ NIE: Angels and Intelligence Estimates / Job Creation Continues – More Than
6.6 Million Jobs Created Since August 2003 / Show Them Who Is the Boss in
France / Terrorists at Guantánamo, The Treatment of the Detainees &
Responding to Press Accounts of GTMO and Other Issues / Iraqis have to make
compromises to limit incentives to violence / Another Russian Journalist
Murdered / Some 810,00 undetected jobs / Israel has seen better leadership /
Anna Politkovskaya / It's time for consumer-assassins to accept the market's
judgment / The Cost of an 'Adequate' Education / Officials at the EU anti-fraud
office feel no need to stick with the facts / Getting beyond the conventional
wisdom on Asian development / Military Thais / Germany's Return From History's
Outskirts / Europe turns its back on Socrates, Locke, et al. / Two Research
Questions On Climate Change / "Organic" means that the products were
raised inefficiently
Friday
Oct 06, 2006
WMD:
Current Nuclear Proliferation Challenges / U.S. Trade Policy Tracker: An Update
/ Former Washington Post’s Thomas Edsall on Bob Woodward / Scowcroft on 'State
of Denial' / John Mearsheimer meets his critics / Dear Libertarian Democrats /
War Continuation Insurance / Mark Foley is gay and is around young men: wiretap
him! / Hezbollah Is for Lovers? / The Stasi's houses of terror / The
International Atomic Energy Agency just can't get it right / Forgotten UN
Reform / Japan's energy needs fuel Moscow's geopolitical ambitions /
Hezbollah's Media Weapon / Singapore: Another blow to the free press / The main
cause of the deficit decline is a tidal wave of tax revenue / Milton Friedman:
Hong Kong Wrong; What would Cowperthwaite say? / David Cameron tries to keep
his policies (and critics) under wraps as long as possible / Mark Foley is on his
way to oblivion after his 15 minutes of infamy / Ecuadoran democrats have good
reason to fear Rafael Correa's growing popularity / Prodi's Left Turn: Italy's
prime minister is back on traditional ground / The Far Eastern Economic Review
will no longer circulate in Singapore / Kim Jong Il's nuclear saber rattling
may unite his neighbors / Human-Input of Aerosols and Their Effect On
Precipitation / El Niño is Back / Three Hypotheses On The Role of Human-Climate
Forcings In The Climate System / Will Analyzing Body Fluids Improve Health?
Thursday
Oct 05, 2006
US
contributed $1.6 million to humanitarian mine action in Macedonia / Stashiu
Arrives at GTMO and Describes the Terrorists / Free Speech Marches Through
Georgia Tech / New York Times & George Tenet-Condoleeza Rice pre-9/11
meeting / CAIR’s Catholic Blood Money / NATO Fights the Jihadists / The Arab
Temptation in the aftermath of Lebanon / The Status of United Nations Reform /
Haiti in Extremis / To End Iran Standoff, Plan for War / Hurricanes Hardly Happen
/ Is al Qaeda's terrorism "Fascist" or Leninism? / A Muslim's Apology
/ Airbus at the Crossroads / Pain in Slums of Chavez / Japanese Prime
Minister's Planned Visit to China and Korea / The political waters are filling
with sharks fighting over Foley's carcass / The Politics of Ports / North Korea
is best understood as a "revisionist state" / "Law
enforcement" versus "war" in an age of terrorism / Let's not
downplay the significance of the Dow / Elections: It's not 1994 all over again
in Nevada / Government meddling is crippling the troubled company / Kaesong's
Workers / Canberra and Corruption / Pakistan's Border Problem / 'Win in China'
/ Lula's Labyrinth: When left-wing leaders adopt center-right policies / The
hostile takeover of Manchester U's student newspaper / Senator Inhofe & CNN
Anchor In Heated Exchange Over Global Warming Coverage / Overturning the Gulf
Stream Myth / Health of Florida's Coral Reef / Small study: no significant
increase in BMI on the basis of quantity of milk, 100% fruit juice, fruit
drink, or soda consumed / A Bad Time For Organic Believers / Nature inserts
genes much like modern biotechnologists do / Drought-tolerant plants may boost
yields in dry parts of the U.S. by 40 percent
Wednesday
Oct 04, 2006
Clinton
& Michael Scheuer / Pakistani government's summer truce with the
pro-Taliban tribesman in northern Waziristan / Army Needs Adequate Funding /
Welcome the Nationalism of Prime Minister Abe / An alarm signal from
Rafsanjani? / Who's Really in Denial? / The economy isn't performing exactly as
expected / Hamdan decision endangers the very foundation of our nation / A
"Moderate" Muslim for UN Secretary-General? / The New Face of Canada
/ Israel’s New Reality After the Ceasefire / Health: Competition is producing more
choices and lower costs / The Dow's New Top, a sign of America's economic
resilience / How the Australian Wheat Board helped Saddam / Three reasons why
the independence of the judiciary is not under siege / Ahmadinejad and the
Holocaust / Why did the Nobel Prize committee ignore George Gamow? / The Real
Market for Fuel Efficiency / Free Mail: Where Europe is far ahead of America /
Greek Tricks / Georgia takes a necessary and calculated risk / Those who want
to become Australians should adopt the nation's values / Localize Public
Education / Tash Ma Tash / Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Risk of Coronary
Heart Disease / No clear evidence for ultra-low cholesterol targets /
Transgenic plants for insect pest control / Vitamin A Boost from New
Biofortified Maize
Tuesday
Oct 03, 2006
$31.85-Million
Infrastructure Contract for Southern Sudan / Breaking the Iran N-Impasse /
Initiatives for Better, Faster, and More Secure Visas / Time for the Senate to
Act on Iran Sanctions / Five Years Later — Gauging Islamist Terrorism / The
Risks for South Africa if Meltdown Continues / The Philosopher and the Fatwa /
Will Dems embrace CAIR's Muslim Congressional candidate? / Killing Terrorists
Makes Less Terrorists ... unless you're a government "intelligence"
analyst / Impressive amount of recycling that actually takes place daily / Time
for some alternative tax-cut strategies / Charles Rangel has been happy to
explain his agenda / Could a gay Congressman be quarantined? / "Not
losing" isn't the same as "winning" / Left-wing politics on
campus / 300,000,000: This demographic milestone is not cause for alarm / Few
people are better qualified to run the U.N. than Ashraf Ghani / A French
philosopher is silenced and intimidated / India's knockout private sector / The
EU fiddles again. Uh-oh / India's Censorship Craze / Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysian
Mudslinging / Some light on the problem of academic indoctrination / The
Invention of the 'Tropical Forest’ / Hurricane Data Not Cooperating / Interview
with Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa
Monday
Oct 02, 2006
USAID
Announces $22 for National Literacy Program In Afghanistan / Support for Labor,
Environment in Central America / NASA Administrator Welcomes China to Ranks of
Spacefaring Nations / A stronger military for Japan would benefit US / Tax Rate
Reductions Strengthen the Economy, But Excessive Government Spending Threatens
Long-Run Performance / Pakistan's Pseudo-War / The Case for Waterboarding /
Indict the New York Times / The Guardian: An Atrocity Created Israel's Birth /
Why hindering coercive interrogation hurts America / What To Do About High (But
Falling) Gas Prices / Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites /
Letter From Iranian Supreme Leader: We Need Nuclear Bomb / Hillary Clinton
defended her husband's counterterrorism track record / The border fence can
work / Five Key Myths in Bob Woodward's Book / Michael Ledeen's comments on
Woodward / U.S. Environment Agency Partnering To Reduce Methane Emissions /
Woodward Misleads / The Pope and Muslim Ambassadors / The roots of Republican
failures in Congress / Democrats on al Qaeda / The Supreme Court takes up
"paycheck protection" / These days, the world's greatest chessplayers
are showing little brainpower / The Military Commissions Act reaffirms our commitment
to the Geneva Conventions / Productivity growth means higher paychecks for U.S.
workers / Humanity's Greatest Achievement: Thank entrepreneurs, not government
/ Sarkozy: "The EU must suspend any new accession negotiations with
Turkey" / Putting Burma's case to the U.N. hasn't been easy / Iran hasn't
ramped up its enrichment effort as quickly as expected? / NYT view of Tokyo
Rose: "Exemplary" / Enviros Target Target due to PVC / Al Gore's An
Inconvenient Truth / Strong Winds Trigger Increase In Ozone-Destroying Gases In
Upper Stratosphere In 2006 / Lyman et al Paper “Recent Cooling In the Upper
Ocean” / Biomass Heat and Biochemical Energy Associated With Vegetation
Processes / Ban on trans fatty acids (TFAs) in local restaurants
Friday
Sep 29, 2006
Tanzania,
US Work Together on New Health Center / America is pursuing a grand design in
Asia / NIE: victory in Iraq is critical to the war against terrorism /
Declining Energy Prices No Reason for Complacency / Estimating our national
intelligence / International Crisis Group (ICG) / Polishing An Image -
Islamic-Style / Facing “the crisis which is to decide our destiny” / The Gray
Lady's latest distortion / The Media vs. The War on Terror. By Rich Noyes /
Missionaries and Mercenaries / Christian Charlier, inspector, IAEA, cannot
enter Iran / A class action lawsuit everybody can join / Keeping proven crooks
out of sensitive ports / The weird science of World Economic Forum rankings /
The Musharraf Exception, America's favorite dictator / The five elements of success
in today's global marketplace / Can the Democrats Beat Bush's Beliefs / Is
Brazil Nuts -- Or Just the System? Slow growth and corruption are offsprings of
the monster government / Felix Austria / China's Bad Apples . . . and its
rotten barrel / May Shinzo Abe watch the market's wisdom closely / In Bosnia,
War by Other Means / Shanghai Shakedown: The law applies to those who lose /
Interview with Burt Prelutsky / Hansen’s Paper & Sea Surface Temperatures
Of The Hole 806B / Smokeless tobacco / Newly-approved drugs should carry a
black triangle for their first two years?
Thursday
Sep 28, 2006
Achieving
Greater Transparency and Accountability in Government / Bin Ladenism Lives, and
So Probably Does Bin Laden / Economic and Strategic Rewards of the U.S.-Oman
Free Trade Agreement / Is Communism Dead? / China and the Middle East: A New
Patron of Regional Instability / To Kill an Alan Dershowitz / Keith Ellison,
CAIR, and HAMAS / Intimidating the West, from Rushdie to Benedict / Juan
Williams Has Had "Enough" / Admit We’re Peaceful…or Else / NIE:
written by committee, it contains something for everyone and avoids any clear
statements that might prove wrong / Dunn, HP: Congress can't prevent bad
business judgment / Wal-Mart's critics really just want more union clout /
Lessons of the NIE: Mr. Bush should abolish these spook summaries /
Intelligence, jihadists and the Iraq war debate / The era of cable monopolies
is coming to a close / Is There Life After 'Macaca'? George Allen's re-election
/ Google: What is "fair use" in Belgian? / America's fall from the
top of the latest competitiveness rankings / India's Terror Politics / Ban
Ki-moon for U.N. secretary-general? / Irish Academics against Israel / For
Non-Whites Only / The Sun has been particularly active in the past few decades
/ Southern hemisphere ignores global warming / Hansen claimed that the Mg/Ca
proxies determined temperature to within 1 K / The 4th Annual SORCE Meeting:
Earth’s Radiative Budget - Part II / Anthrax Threat as Potent as Before / Net Gains,
by Jessie Stone, as commented by JunkScience.com
Wednesday
Sep 27, 2006
Still
Spending: Senate Set to Bust Budget Caps by $32 Billion / How to Measure
Economic Well-being / Chavez, the Chump? / What Else Was In the NIE Report? /
Can Pakistan save itself from the Taliban? / Financing Somalia's Islamist
Warlords / UN: Why its "relief" agency needs to be shut down - UNRWA
/ Most Indians favor improved ties to the US / Rendering the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Decision / The Rest of the Story: The NIE Reflects Previous Statements About
the War on Terror / San Diego and the SEC / Decision to Declassify / South
Carolina deserves praise for fighting its schools' failure / Sandra D O'Connor:
A South Dakota ballot aspires to judicial intimidation / What President Clinton
Didn't Do . . . and when he didn't do it / Bush's NIE Remarks / The H-P snafu
is devoid of larger meaning / Microsoft's Precrimes: Brussels rolls out a new
pre-emptive competition policy / Hello, Bulgaria and Romania. Good-bye, Turkey
/ Ted Turner's "aid" checks from Uncle Sam / An Abe Agenda / Central
Europe sours on politics / Swedish New Age: A vote for lower taxes,
privatization and reform / A more aggressive Japanese diplomacy / Erasing
Israel on the Palestinian school curriculum / Hot & Cold Media Spin: A
Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming / Crutzen & Man-Made
Volcanic Effect / Diabetes, not obesity, increases risk of developing critical
illness and early death
Tuesday
Sep 26, 2006
Federalizing
"Gang Crime" Is Counterproductive and Dangerous / Is the European
Union in the Interests of the United States? / Directed-Energy Defenses That
Could Protect Israel from Hezbollah's Short-Range Rockets / What to Expect from
a Single-Payer Health Care System / U.N. shows why it's incapable of reform /
From the UN Podium with Deceit / A survivor of Islamic terror warns America /
Remembering the totalitarian malice of East Germany / Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed
Taha / The Islamization of Morocco / Joseph Ratzinger on the destiny of reason
/ Bill Clinton, Bin Laden / Declassify the Terrorism NIE: How to defeat
selective, politically motivated leaks / Bogus conflict-of-interest complaints
against the courts / Antipork Progress / H-P's "governance
perfectionist" learns there's no substitute for business judgment / When
it comes to Iran's nuclear crisis, the ball is in Washington's court / Yusuf
al-Qaradawi's is the nearest thing Sunni Islam has to a pope / The trial of
Turkish novelist Elif Shafak / Asia: Regional animosity is springing up at a
time when trade is on the rise / Anson: Hong Kong's "democracy" takes
another blow / Thailand: When media is threatened, civil society is at risk /
Rupee Reform / Chris Wallace Has Indeed Grilled A Bush Official About Failing
to Get Osama Before 9/11 / Virgins of Paradise / SORCE Meeting: Earth’s
Radiative Budget / Royal Society's recent letter to Exxon-Mobil / Med Profs
Find Media Drops Context on Science Stories / Bans on Industry Research Grants
Are Bad for Science
Monday
Sep 25, 2006
$1.4
Billion Contract for Infrastructure in Afghanistan / $100 Million for So-Called
"Neglected" Diseases in Developing Nations / Iranian-Born American Is
World's First Muslim Woman in Space / European role reversal? / Hoping to
Restore Growth, Voters Rebel Against Sweden's High-Tax Welfare State / Enduring
Features of the Debate Over Missile Defense / Korea and the United States:
Forging a Partnership for the Future / It’s 1938 All Over Again / Debate on
climate change is far too important to be shut down by the scientists Society /
What Hugo Chavez got right at the UN / Canada’s socialist party leader wants to
negotiate with Taliban / CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper denies there is a CAIR-Saudi
Connection. But... / Rosie O’Donnell's Anti-Christian Smear / Proof the Islamic
world is not ready to battle the terrorist threat / A mass pathology on public
display / Airbus / Bill Clinton’s Excuses / Corruption? Welcome to the
upside-down world of development aid / Green Virgin / Europe v. Microsoft:
Brussels helps software competitors, not consumers / Chávez's Inferno / Losing
Afghanistan / Corporate America Takes On Spitzerism / Free trade is important,
but it isn't easy. China's intransigence makes things worse all around / A NATO
Solution for Sudan's Genocide / Ahmadinejad waits for the world to come to him
/ Tony Snow / News Article Quote Attributed To Jim Hansen / Overview of the
Radiation Budget in the Lower Atmosphere / David Whitehouse on Royal Society
Efforts to Censor / Climate Change and the Demographic Shift / Day of Reckoning
for DDT Foes? / Mycotoxin Reduction in Bt Corn / Bt Cotton: Brazilian Farmers
to Use 25% Less Insecticides
Friday
Sep 22, 2006
US
provides emergency assistance and preparedness planning on avian influenza to
53 countries / Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan / Credit
Markets, Not Conspiracies, For Gas Price Drop / Carey’s The Clash of Faiths in
an Age of Secularism / Are Videotaped Beheadings Covered by Geneva? / The
Council on Foreign Relations & Iran / Karen Armstrong scolds the Pope for
his Islamophobia / Why the Enemy Can Rejoice / McCain, Miranda, and Common
Article 3 / Ahmadinejad Spars With CFR Members / Sweden Has Learned From Its
Own Lesson / U.N. Charades / Shocked! by Chavez / GOP Games at the FDA /
'Republicans Will Make History' - 'Democrats Offer a New Direction' / The
revolutionary baton has been passed to Chavez / Mubarak Should Call Benedict
XVI / Brussels v. Microsoft, Again / Hpong Kong: Donald Tsang's bad economic
policies / The Kremlin's brutal approach to doing business with the West / School
with a required course in Liberation Theology / Home composting generates
greenhouse gas, academics warn / The Need to Move Beyond a Focus of the
Radiative Forcing of the Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases / Nutritional differences
between organic and non-organic milk / Drug Prices "Skyrocketing," or
Growing Slower than Inflation, or Something
Thursday
Sep 21, 2006
U.S.
Global Pandemic Assistance Nears $400 Million / To Help Millions in Africa
Access Clean Water / President Bush Addresses UN General Assembly / UN Human
Rights Council: Repeating Past Mistakes / Afghan anxiety: No 'Cut & Run' /
European politicians welcome radical Islamists with open arms / Pope Benedict
Criticizes Islam? / Instead of water wars, let's go for less-thirsty plants /
The Lesson of the DDT Debacle / Security policy based on individual anecdotes?
/ The Abe Enigma / The Next Challenges for Microfinance / Britons could all too
soon become slaves of Europe? / The Great Wall of America / Rendering Unto
Syria: Legal clarity will limit potential interrogation abuses / John Faso
challenges Eliot Spitzer on taxes / Benedict XVI and 'interfaith' dialogue /
The deus ex machine of military coups won't solve any problems / What's so bad
about undermining Cuba's censorship? / November cheer for the GOP in Maryland?
/ Thailand's Coup de Grace: A blow against democracy / Hungary and Italy need
to go cold turkey on their fiscal alcoholism / Indoctrination U: Arizona State
/ Al Jazeera in America / Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity
/ Methane Bubbling from Siberian Thaw Lakes / How do Aerosols and Clouds
Regulate the Planetary Albedo and the Solar Radiation Budget? / ADHD
Researchers Turn Attention to Lead and Smoke
Wednesday
Sep 20, 2006
Emergency
preparedness, aviation system modernization and water supply management in Asia
/ Record-High Corporate Tax Receipts / Congress Jeopardizes Its Own Powers by
Balking on Terrorist Surveillance Program Compromise / How Chile Successfully
Transformed Its Economy / Congress Should Compromise on Military Commissions /
School Choice: 2006 Progress Report / Keith Ellison / Iraq is the "central
front in the War on Terror" for a reason / The Pope, Jihad and
"Dialogue" / What should we look for in Annan's replacement? / Khatami's
"Moderation": The former Iranian president's take on fides et ratio /
Sam Harris: Western civilization really is at risk from Muslim extremists /
Defining Families Down / Abe’s push for patriotism is popular for first time
since WWII / Shebaa Farms, Syria, Lebanon / Taxes and Justice: The KPMG shelter
case / The anti-market Néstor Kirchner stiffs Argentina's creditors / IMF
Consultants Inc.: Bad economic advice, in search of new clients / The U.S. vs.
Iran / The Boom Generation: We cannot escape from our demographic realities /
Russia won't be the only one to blame for the next gas spat / Hungarian Blues /
Finally, Harvard and Princeton adopt a fair diversity policy / Keeping the
global economy on an even keel / Joshua Landis & the Assad party line /
Phenomenological solar signature in 400 years of reconstructed Northern
Hemisphere temperature record / Human Impacts on Weather and Climate
Tuesday
Sep 19, 2006
U.S. Support for Education in the Developing World / Pessimistic Germans Losing Faith in Democracy / Muslims read riot act / On Hubris and Plame / Is California the most efficient user of electricity in the US? / Losing Our Will to Win / Appreciating Oriana Fallaci / Guess who hates the Pope as much as Islamists do? / Osama's Anniversary / Perils of Proliferation: Iran's Manhattan project speeds on without impediment / Fine Tuning U.S. Relations with Pakistan / Homeland Security Grant Reform / Congress Should Not Criminalize “Price Gouging” of Gasoline / US-Russia: realistic relationship | ||
